# CVE-2018-7728: An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-03-06 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. XMPFiles/source/FileHandlers/TIFF_Handler.cpp mishandles a case of a zero length, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the MD5Update() function in third-party/zuid/interfaces/MD5.cpp.

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## Related

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## References

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=e163667a06a9b656a047b0ec660b871f29a83c9f
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105205
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BCFXKOOATZ2B5G3G7EBXZWVZHEABN4ZV/

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